Washington · Nonprofit
Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition
Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,228 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $455k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $580k
What Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition does
Mission
We work to expand, fund, maintain, promote and advocate for an accessible and inclusive trail system from Mt. Rainier National Park to Puget Sound, fostering recreation, health, active transportation, economic growth, and environmental and historic preservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Coalition organized the annual Rainier to Ruston Relay, a regional relay event drawing more than 1,500 participants and requiring the support of approximately 100 volunteers to carry out successfully. The event showcases the Coalitions vision of a connected mountain-to-sound trail system from Mount Rainier National Park to Puget Sound while promoting outdoor recreation, trail connectivity, and public awareness of the Foothills Trail system. The event also supports the Coalitions mission to maintain, enhance, and expand regional trail access.
$107,827 spent$205,197 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe Coalition led a capital campaign, along with design and planning efforts, for the Doc Tait Pavilion in Buckley in partnership with the City of Buckley and Pierce County Parks. The project honors longtime trail advocate Dr. Douglas Tait and will provide a public gathering space along the Foothills Trail featuring shelter, restrooms, and interpretive signage. During the year, the Coalition secured funding and advanced the project toward construction, which began and was completed in 2025.
$459,239 spent$81,549 earned by the program70% of program spendingIn partnership with Pierce County Parks, the Coalition expanded its volunteer stewardship program through monthly work parties held from April through October along the Foothills Trail corridor. In 2025, the program engaged 168 volunteers who contributed approximately 370 hours of service toward invasive species removal, native tree and shrub planting, and trail maintenance. Highlights included Celebrate Trails Day, where more than 60 volunteers helped plant over 200 native trees and shrubs. Together, these efforts improved trail conditions, strengthened habitat restoration, and deepened community investment in the long-term care and preservation of the Foothills Trail.
$27,672 spent$12,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingFriends of Riverwalk Community Outreach Bridge the Plateau
$60,690 spent$35,741 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $655,428.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $336k to $549k (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 3% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Breanna Fokes
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $2k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition?
- Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,228 to it, the largest being GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($59,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $235,228 in grants to Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition?
- GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foothills Rails-to-Trails Coalition find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing